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pleasure principle

NOUN
principle behind instincts
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Antonyms
WEAK
reality principle


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The creation is yet another example of the restaurant’s pleasure principle at work, and how apt to enjoy it while Cheryl Lynn is singing “Got to Be Real.”

From Washington Post Jul. 15, 2022

I find myself increasingly committed to the pleasure principle — first formulated by John Dryden in 1668.

From New York Times Oct. 22, 2020

The excessive, destabilising bit of the pleasure principle that’s channelling the death drive.

From The Guardian Dec. 24, 2019

But unlike Salonen’s moody Pollux and frenzied Castor, Partch applied the pleasure principle.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 11, 2019

The transition from the pleasure principle to that of fact is the most important advance in the development of the ego.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud



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